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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Simone de Beauvoir

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True

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